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2 - Divine Kenosis as Either Depotentiation or Divestment

The Failure of Nineteenth-Century Kenoticism to Repair Chalcedon

from Part I - A Critical History of Kenotic Christologies and Their Antecedents:

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 November 2021

Bruce Lindley McCormack
Affiliation:
Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey
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This chapter examines nineteenth-century kenoticism through the theologies of Gottfried Thomasius, Wolfgang Geß, A. B. Bruce, and H. R. Mackintosh. Before doing so, however, it establishes the historical context for kenoticism through two periods. First, analyzing the classical Lutheran Christology that took shape in the debates between Lutheran and Reformed theologians, giving special attention to the Christology of Martin Chemnitz. Second, through examining the revolutionary critique of classic Lutheran theology found in David Friedrich Strauss. In the end, this chapter argues that all of the kenoticists’ attempts to introduce modifications into the Chalcedonian dogma, without addressing the logical aporia of the definition itself, were bound to result in divine mutability – or, more precisely, a mutation of the divine nature of the Chalcedonian Logos.

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The Humility of the Eternal Son
Reformed Kenoticism and the Repair of Chalcedon
, pp. 66 - 99
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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